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\"I'm just Mom,\" she added. \"And I'm more than happy to just be Mom.\"

Mendes said when she became a mother, her priorities shifted in terms of her acting career. \"I felt a lack of ambition, if I can be honest. I feel more ambitious in the home right now than I do in the workplace,\" she said.

She shared that she is content with her full-time role as a mother to her two young daughters -- but still gets a lot of help from her family.

\"It's a village that helped us,\" she said. \"My heart goes out to women who do this alone. I basically come from a single-parent household; although I love my dad, my mom mostly raised four of us on her own.\"

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She attributes her drive and sense of appreciation to her hard working mother.

\"We didn't have much when I was growing up,\" she told Women's Health. \"My mother would say, 'As little as we have, there are so many people who have less.' She made me appreciate that from an early age.\"

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